Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-07-14

Ion the 4th. during celebrations. a.
/ THE st. Louis cooperage, situated near
the river bank, was burned on the 4tn'
caused by fire crackers. Loss, s100. Goo
~TueMAsS. BALpw1N dropped from bal
| loon, holding asparachute, at Quincy, IL,
on the 4th. He reached the ground IN
safety.
THE Judge of the United States Circuit
Court at Portland, Ore, has authorized a
receiver to charge more for short than
for a long haul
THE Union Labor party of Ohio has nom
mated the following ticket Governor,
John Dietz of THIN; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
F. NJ. Mcdonald, of Springfield; Supreme
Judge, long term, Tim O'Conner, of C1ncin-
natl; short term, Granville N. futile, OF
gainesville; Auditor, 0. j. Suffer, OF
Akron; Treasurer, E. p. Harter, OF ALI
ance; Attorney-General William Baker, OF
Newark; member of public works, Carl A.
Reader, of Cleveland.
NAHDIzAz, the Apache who was found
guilty of murder in the first degree of the
killing of Lieutenant Mott, at San Carlos,
March IL and sentenced to Imprisonment
for life, has been sent to the prison at Ches-
ter, Ill.
THE American party closed three days
secret session at San Francisco on the 6th.
The platform declared against various
.'isms," theories and practices supposed to
tive interests.
THE gasoline stove-workers of America
met in annual convention in Cleveland, O.,
ON the 9th.
- OVER 800 music teachers attended the
national conventions meetings at Indian
apolis, Ind, on the 9th.
A NUMBER of murdered bodies of China
men have been floating down the Snake
river in Idaho lately. It was generally
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by white men, though some thought it was
the work of Indians. - r.
WORMS are destroying the cranberry
vines in and about Berlin, Wis, and it is
feared that the vines will be entirely ruined.
THE Pacific Investigating Committee I'M
earthed some sensational facts at Leaven-
worth on the 9th, the principal being list
of prominent persons bribed in the early
days of the Union Pacific. 's. s,-e
DIR. NORTH, the physician in charge of the
Wabash, st. Louis & Pacific Railway Hos
pital at Peru, Ind, was shot and fatally
wounded recently by John Christianson.
The man was beating his daughter at the
time, when North attempted to stop his
brutality, with the above result. The shoot
ing incensed the people. who took Christian
son out of Jail and hanged him to bridge.
THE Utah constitutional convention COM
pleted and adopted its constitution on the
lygamy, representation for minority and
separation of Church and State were adopt
ed with others. The vote of the people will
be taken in August.
THE President, in a letter to Mayor
Francis, of st. Louis, says that he will be
unable to visit that city during the Grand
Army encampment next fall. His reasons,
briefly expressed, are that his presence
might lead to discord and cause feelings
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ent increasing between the North and the
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EIGHT Italians were drowned in the Stur-
geon river mines at Metropolitan, Mich, on
the 9TH, the river breaking into the works.
PERHAM, Mimi, reports the country alive
with grasshoppers and every thing being
eaten up.
THE SOUTH.
Hon. DUNCAN FENNER, president of
the Louisiana Jockey Club, president of
the Sugar Planters Association, and iden-
titled with many enterprises in louisiana
died suddenly at New Orleans on the 3d.
Mr.. Kenner was formerly a member of
Congress and Confederate Commissioner
to France, and also one of the Tariff Com
missioners appointed by President Arthur
THE old National Theater at New Orleans
known as Werlein Hall, was destroyed by
fire recently.
THE reported existence of cholera in
Greenville, Miss. is officially denied.
SAM JONES instituted new departure
the other evening at Baltimore by charging
hfty-cent admission to his evangelical
meetings.
THE citizens of Helena, Ark, have sub
scribed $4,000 to be used in conjunction
with $4,000 allowed by the Mississippi
Commission for the protection of the levees
along the river front at that place. ga
AT Harrod's creek, near Louisville, KY,
on the 4th, two boys were killed by light
ming while fishing.
THE first deadly encounter over the pro-
hibition issue, now convulsing all sections
of Texas, occurred recently at Sunset
John Glass, a Prohibitionist, shot and
killed Sam Trammel, an anti. They quar-
relied over the canvass and made friends
Later on they met, with the above result.
b. F. FEEDER, a miller of Danville, KY,
was bitten on the nose by rat day or
two ago. He lies in critical condition,
erysipelas having set in.
THOMAS A. CARTER, of Ozark, Ark, has
been appointed appraiser of the right of
way of the Kansas q Arkansas railway
through the Indian Territory.
TEN new cases of and three deaths from
yellow fever were reported at Key West.
Fla, on the 9Th.
IN 1873, while ]. Samp Swift was sheriff
of Galloway County, KY, his accounts were
50, GOO short. He thought deputy had
robbed him. In making good the deficiency
1t pankrupted him, and he has since sup
ported his family as day laborer Re
Gently his wife was sent to an insane
asylum, and IN her rawlings told of money
hid In the smoke house. Investigation re-
vealed 81, 200 in greenbacks. 1t is thought
she concealed the money in one of her at
tacks. fr.f ~ IT.
ADVICEs from Jonesboro, Ark, say that
a man got off the west bound train at that
place, and, walking up to a small crowd of
people, drew revolver and fired three
shots, killing one man and fatally wound
ing another. The man was believed to be
an escaped lunatic. r.
AGANG of eight men recently atteuDted
to rob the through Kansas axnrors IN, a, q